General

1961 Tower – Tweeter Height

The height from the bottom of the cabinet to the tweeter with the Spikes Kit mounted is 66,7cm, as you can see in the image below. 

Do I Have to Pay State Sales Taxes?

When checking out you may notice that sales taxes are missing from the total amount collected during the billing process. If you happen to live in the states of Kentucky (6%), Illinois (6.25% + local applicable/municipal taxes), or Wyoming (4%) we do collect state sales taxes for orders that are shipping to these states. These […]

How to Track My Order?

For US orders from the warehouse in Chicago, we ship by FedEx For orders to European countries and worldwide we ship from Rotterdam by DHL.    When your order has been dispatched from the warehouse you will receive an UPLIFT ALERT – email from our shipping partner. This email contains a list of the item […]

1723 Tower S THX – Tweeter Height

The height from the bottom of the cabinet to the tweeter is 69,85cm as you can see on the image below. With spikes kit mounted, the height increases to 73,8cm.

Recommended Subwoofer Cables

Here is a list of recommended subwoofer cables that don’t break the bank. Good quality connectors, proper solder joints, and functioning shielding are the attributes we are looking for. Blue Jeans Cable Supra Cables Amazon Basics Oehlbach Cordial Cables RCA / XLR Sommer Cable RCA / XLR

1723 Tower THX – Tweeter Height

The height from the bottom of the cabinet to the tweeter is 83,2cm as you can see on the image below. With spikes kit mounted, the height increases to 87,3cm.

Multivolt Subwoofers

All our subwoofers are multi-voltage units that accept from 100-250V and 50/60Hz. The subwoofer detects this automatically and you don’t need to do anything before you plug it into your power grid!

What Speakers Stands Do You Recommend?

We get these questions a lot, so here is a list of speaker stands companies that will work with our products.(it will be updated regularly) Atacama Norstone Solidsteel Monoprice Liedtke-Metalldesign Custom-Design Sanus Kanto Dayton Audio Pangea Audio   The stands on the picture are these: https://solidsteel.it/my-product/ss-5-vintage-hi-fi-speaker-stands/   A Respectful Alternative There is no shame in […]

1961 Tower Spike Kit Footprint

Here are some dimensional drawings of the 1961 Tower speaker with the spike kit mounted.    The length of the Spike bar is 25cm.    The distance between the centre of the spike bars is 22,56cm.   The distance from front and back of cabinet to the spike bar is 1,7514cm.   The distance between […]

What Is a Subsonic Filter

A subsonic filter is a component on your subwoofer that reduces the intensity of notes which come through at lower frequencies. It decreases the amplitude of those low notes that you feel more than you hear. In other words, it’s what we know as a high-pass filter: a filter that lets through signals above a […]

Avalanche IQ Amps Q-Convention

Our Avalanche IQ amps use the RBJ Q-convention for the parametric EQs.With this you can easily calculate the PEQ settings inside a program like REW.

Balance Output Levels of Channels in a Surround Sound System

Why Do I Need to Balance Output Levels for All Channels in a Surround Sound System and What’s the Best Way to Do So? Level balancing (using your AVR’s built-in test tone generator) makes sure that your system is precisely calibrated to match the acoustical properties of your room, just as technicians do when they’re […]